The Cigar Stops review of Drew Estate’s Tabak Especial Limited – Café’ Con Leche’

Name: Drew Estate’s Tabak Especial Limited – Café’ Con Leche’

Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf & Ecuador Connecticut Broadleaf

Filler/Binder: Nicaraguan

Shape/Size: Belicoso (5.5 x 54)

Strength: Mild, but can Vary due to infusion 

Box/Bundle: Box of 20

Flavored: yes (coffee – Espresso – milk chocolate)

 Price:  $12.00 per single $100.00 to $125.00 per box

 There are plenty of flavored cigars out there, but if you are looking for one that is not over powering with sweetness, while maintain great construction, this is the one you want, however I must warn you, you will pay a pretty penny for this one. This cigars is one of 4 that I would empty the piggy bang for every once in a while.

 This is a duel wrapper so it starts off sweet with hints of coffee and chocolate, then it tappers down to a nice mellow inviting smoke and at the very end of the cigar it gets sweet again so that you have a great finish and it doesn’t taste like wet dog like most flavored cigars when you get down to the end. With this one you never want it to go out, but alas how you would get to light another one if the first one doesn’t go out!

 So there always is a sad note and this one is in the all in the name… “Limited” that’s right the reason for the expense and the rare availability is due to the fact that they use two premium wrappers and that the whole cigar wrapper and filler is all infused and aged. If there were a King of Infuse cigars that king would be Drew Estates and if there was one flavored cigar that was to be held high on a pedestal it would be this one. 

If you are a fan of infused cigars or flavored cigars try this one and you tell us here at the cigar stop if we were wrong in our review. 

I rate this cigar a 8.5 out of 10

B.O.T.L.

~CigarAsh~

The Cigar Stops Top 20 Budget Bundles of 2014

Most of our readers already know we love our Budget Bundles of cigars, you get your money’s worth and the cigars taste good. You do not have to buy expensive cigars in a box to be able to have premium cigars that will not wipe out your wallet. To be a Budget Bundle the price of between $29.00 to $69.00 U.S.

 So here at the Cigar Stop we are going to give you what we consider the top 20 Budget Bundles of 2014 in no specific order.

  If you have one you would like to recommend to us or the readers post it to share, we appreciate your input and would love to hear from you.

1.     Gran Habano Vintage 2002

2.     Arganese: Maduro – Nicaraguan Habano & Connecticut

3.     La Perla Habana: Morado & Classic Maduro

4.     Pirates Gold

5.     La Herencia Cubana

6.     Gran Habano’s Blue Lable – B2

7.     HC Series by Xikar

8.     Torano’ Dominican selection

9.     Bahia: Maduro, Blu & Trinidad

10.      Gurkha: Park Avenue:  Natural (EMS) and Maduro

11.      Victor Sinclair: Tripple Corojo & Connecticut Yankee

12.      Fonseca: Arana

13.      J. Fuego: CoroJo Oscuro

14.      Garo: Double Maduro & Double Habano

15.      Pinar Del Rio: Reserva Limitada

16.      Oliva” Viejo Mundo

17.      Graycliff: Turbo Edicion Limitado

18.      EP Carrillo: Maduro & New Wave

19.      Sosa

20.      Purios Indios

These are the top 20 Budget Bundles we have Sampled this past year, out of all of the cigars we have had thus far these are our favorites this year and we will strive to give you a review on each one of them and  in some cases we have already.

See you next time

B.T.O.L.

The Cigar Stop Blog Team

2014 Cigar Tasting

A little Taste goes a long way . . . 

 Our little Local Cigar Club decided to have a Cigar tasting Event to end the summer. It was originally going to be just a cigar event, but we changed it a few weeks before the date to “Cigars, Bratts and Beer”.

  Each member was asked to bring a 10 count of cigars that they have not tried before and we will divide them up and trade with the other members that are participating. As well as Bring a Beer they have not had, mostly Micro Brews and some kind of Bratwurst or Sausage.

 There was coffee and whiskey on hand as well as some cheese and crackers, pretzels and pumpernickel and onion sticks and assorted veggies and dips.

 Here is a list of what was on the tasting roster.

·        Black Crown’s Sons of Anarchy - Toro

·        Cu-Avana – Maduro - Toro

·        Carlos Torano’s Loyal Aged Ligero 52’s – Robusto

·        Puros Indios – Gordo

·        Gurkha – Black Dragon Solomons

Here is a few Photos of the members that were at the “Smoking Troll Bar and Grill” participating in the 2014 cigar tasting.

 This will be the last Official Dead Ringers Cigar Club event of the 2014 year, although as usual we have a couple of “meetings” Planed in the “Cigar Garage” before the end of the year.

On a side note, Due to weather and time constraints and location we only had 4 members of the Dead Ringers participating in the cigar tasting, but I can tell you they all tasted good, stay tuned for reviews on all the cigars in the next few months.

 See you next time.

B.T.O.L.

~CigarAsh~